Shanghai in summer is not as hot as the north, and the gentle breeze blows slightly, bringing the breath of the sea tide, which is so suitable.

This is the wharf of Shanghai Port, close to the concession, next to the British military port, on this busy waterway, you can see cargo ships coming and going from time to time, most of them are cargo ships of less than 8,000 tons, and occasionally there will be ocean-going cargo ships of more than 10,000 tons.

On the wharf, the whistle sounded, a 13,000-ton ocean-going cargo ship that was launched in the United States last year and brought to China stopped calmly, because it was a cargo ship, not like a passenger ship, with more than a dozen decks, but a wide hull specially arranged for carrying cargo, which made people feel that this was a behemoth.

The white hull of the ship, not a trace of smudge, the hull of the ship, was opened out of a dozen different entrances, laborers like ants moving elephants, different laborers.

On the freeboard, the letter October is written in English, the October number, which is the name of a cargo ship, as one of the most advanced ocean-going cargo ships in China, the price is also extremely expensive, from Shanghai, China, to Europe, just the freight costs tens of thousands, which is a silver dollar, converted into dollars, there are tens of thousands.

In the Far East, there is no super chamber of commerce, can be filled with 13,000 tons at one time, the ship's owner's abacus, is also ready to concentrate on loading, so this ship, more consideration of the problem of bulk, China to Europe shipping, a certain amount of dù above, or quite profitable, every year from China to buy tea, silk, porcelain or something, and some agricultural and sideline products, these to Europe, can become expensive imported goods, for which to pay a huge transportation cost, is still acceptable. This time, however, the owner of the ship was serving only one person, a chamber of commerce, to be exact.

"Harpy, the ship is already full, and the cabin from the special realm has also been refitted, and it can leave at any time!" The pot-bellied captain, in front of Harpy, said respectfully.

The newly launched cargo ships of more than 10,000 tons use more advanced engines, and the speed is at least one-sixth faster than that of ordinary cargo ships, that is, from China to Europe, one-sixth of the voyage can be saved, which is calculated according to 6 weeks, which is a reduction of almost one week.

The long voyage and the time of a week represent the efficiency and the improvement is limited, but in terms of price, it is almost twice as expensive as other cargo ships below 10,000 tons, but Harpy still chose this without hesitation, because it has a large cargo capacity and is enough to load all the goods.

The Yang family and the Wei family, the ability to integrate the whole country is quite large, Shanghai is not the focus of the development of the Jin merchants in Shaanxi, the Jin merchants take the Russian trade, in the Russian side is okay, the fur business and specialties, once occupied most of the Jin merchants, go to the west, but also to cross the Gobi, go to Kulen and Kyakhta, to go to those lucrative goods.

On the Shanghai side, the Yangtze River basin was the focus of British and French power, and the traditional Yangzhou salt merchants, Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants and Fujian merchants once became the mainstream of the market, and the clan power and the intertwined relationship made the Jin merchants only barely operate here, not involving complex and lucrative silk, porcelain, and tea, and more just selling some northwest local products in Shanghai.

On the other hand, it has also become the key to the Jin businessmen to open the breakthrough in Shanghai, so almost half of the resources have been poured into the Shanghai circle, and the Harpy has sold more than half of the profits, and the remaining boutique still has about 6,000 tons, which does not seem to be enough for the overall load, whether it is porcelain, tea, or silk, it is lighter and occupies a larger space, not to mention, there are more than 200, Students who go to study abroad, even if it is above the sea, do not have to think too much, the necessary space and cabins are still available.

"Boss, you're all ready!" A young man dressed in a foreign style and looked a little capable, walked up to Harpy and said respectfully, his name is Zhu Qiang, he is a newly recruited assistant of Harpy, he has served as a staff member of Lihe Foreign Bank, he can not speak proficient in German, and he can communicate normally, he and the other 10 employees who know a little bit of German, and 12 employees who know English, are specially recruited for these international students, they will stay in Germany for a period of time, cooperate with local students, and complete the initial life problems of these expatriate students in Germany.

This is a problem that must be solved, now, there are not so many TOEFL and training in later generations, relying on themselves, students in the first time in Germany, even German can not speak well, let alone study, even life, is very difficult, so some have overseas experience, or understand the local or nearby language, it becomes an inevitable choice to take care of them, because it takes time to contact the school, at the beginning, it is intensive training, so that these students gradually adapt to the life of international students in a foreign country.

Yang Yuanzhao sent them to Germany, in order to let them learn enough knowledge, not to play casually, such a centralized training, has been carried out for more than 3 months, from the initial personnel only a few dozen to the beginning of the gradual arrival of personnel, strengthen the German speaking, strengthen some German habits and matters to pay attention to, of course, there are also focus on engineering assessment, according to this assessment, decide the major that everyone needs to learn, 250 people, a university arrangement, it is not easy at all, You have to choose a few, and even most of them will not be in the same major.

Top universities are scarce, and no matter how many connections are used, they can't get more places, in this case, choosing the best one to enter a better university is conducive to the rational allocation of resources.

In the distance, there was a sound of trumpets, hundreds of metal boxes emitting silver-white brilliance, carried over by a group of dock workers, it looked like a small box, but it was unusually heavy, it was certain that it must be metal inside, but what kind of metal was it, so heavy, such a small box, it looked, it was dozens of centimeters, but it was extremely heavy.

Harpy remembered that this was something that Yang Yuanzhao specifically mentioned before that he had to bring to Germany, and even on top of 6,000 tons of porcelain, silk and tea, he was very curious about what it was, and once wanted to open it to see, but Yang Yuanzhao refused, just saying that after he went, there would be instructions to tell them how to do it, but before, never open it.

It's metal, look at the heavy Cheng dù, it's definitely not steel or anything like that, if there is so much steel, a person can easily lift it, is it gold, Harpy was stunned for a moment, he had calculated before, more than 200 boxes, each box is not big, but it is very heavy, all of them are boxes made of alloy steel, tightly sealed, without a key, it is difficult to open.

If it was gold, this thought came to Harpy's mind, and under a spirit, his eyes stared at the metal box, which didn't look big, if it was all loaded with gold, I was afraid that it would not be one or two hundred tons.

Then, Harpy smiled dumbly, before Yang Yuanzhao exchanged for a part of the gold, but it was only a few kilograms, gold in tons, ordinary rich people can't take it out, some super rich people, you can make it up, but more than a hundred tons, I'm afraid there are not many countries in the world that can take it out, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia, it seems that there are so many, others, maybe Austria-Hungary and Italy, maybe they can take it out, just maybe.

Whatever it is, Harpy expelled this thing from his mind, isn't it a secret anyway, he will always know it when he arrives in Germany, and it will take more than a month to do so.

Don't look at the hundreds of boxes, each box is unusually heavy, each is not big, but there is half a ton of weight, three or four strong men, to be together, to be lifted, from the deck, little by little to the cabin, it took more than an hour, when the last metal box was put up, placed in the strongest and strongest place on the whole ship, Zhu Qiang said: "Boss, the goods have been loaded, do you have any instructions?" ”

"How's the staff, are they all settled?"

"It's all settled, it's all in the middle of the cabin, with 120 rooms next to each other."

120 rooms, 2-3 people in each room, sounds good, but this is on the cargo ship, temporarily separated rooms, each only a few square meters, not even a bed, just hanging bed, hanging in the cabin, which can effectively avoid wind and waves.

The whistle sounded, the entire crew was in place, and the 250 students were all standing on the deck, looking at this place, which may be their hometown, or maybe just a strange place, the distant and mysterious sea, as if it were an unknown world, revealing infinite secrets.

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